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Instructors:

Alex is a graduate student in the German department. His primary interest is the historical phonology of the Germanic languages. In the past, he has worked on projects such as syllabification of historical languages and machine learning models for predicting poetic meter. He is currently interested in using computational tools to evaluate the early development of the Germanic languages.

This four-part, interactive workshop series is your complete introduction to programming Python for people with little or no previous programming experience. By the end of the series, you will be able to apply your knowledge of basic principles of programming and data manipulation to a real-world social science application.

Registration note: To participate in multiple parts of this series, please be sure to register for each day separately.

Technology requirements:

Laptop required.

WindowsWindows machines please download and go through the installer for GitBash. Then download Anaconda. Click the download for Python 3.6. Run the installer.

Mac Mac machines please download Anaconda. Click the download for Python 3.6 and the Graphical Installer. Run the installer.

Please also download the Github repository with the materials for this workshop. Click here, click on the green button labeled "Clone or download", and select "Download ZIP." Then unzip the downloaded file and place the folder on your desktop.